The Emperor Has No Clothes: Guess What, the NSA is Reading This Blog!

First a couple of notes:

·         This is a Blog post from a harmless American citizen that doesn’t have a clue what my Government is up to… so keep that in mind before sending the ninjas.

·         I suspect Edward Snowden deserves to be punished to the full extent of the law. It is hard for me to imagine that he could work for a Federal Agency like the NSA without signing agreements that required him to not speak openly of what he learned while in their employ.  

Now on to the entertainment portion of my Blog.

Which do you think the average American fears more?

·         Having the NSA or some other agency listen to their phone calls, read their e-mail, Texts, web posts, Facebook page or Twitter account finding out that;

o   Mary J gave her Mud Cookie recipe to a few select friends

o   Jim is meeting Bob for drinks.

o    Ray put out some info- Well, it was a secret meeting in the dead of the night With mysterious sanctimony In accordance with prescribed Rituals of time honored ceremony

o   Mr Davis18 likes boobs and is giving a shoutout to his boyz at Brookland High!

o   A lady in Mississippi just told all her friends on Facebook that she will be out of town for a week.

Or?

·         While on vacation in Chicago somebody screams out Allahu Akbar “God is Greatest” right before the L blows Aunt Martha and a few other folks into tiny little bits.

My guess is that most Americans would find the Terrorist issue scarier.

note: There is a small percentage that includes concerned patriots, tax cheats, drug dealers, pedophiles, members of the 4th^h estate, one guy who lives in a bunker in Montana and a bunch of pot smokers in California.

And that brings me to today’s Blog title:

The Emperor Has No Clothes: Guess What, the NSA is Reading This Blog!

Time for a poll, we will have to go with a show of hands…

·         Russia’ Oprichnik [current version led by Putin]

·         Leaders of various Terrorist states that include, but are not limited to- Iran, Anything with a ‘Stan’, Paris, North Korea, China, Venezuela, New York City- including the entire membership of the UN, Mexico and most of Africa

·         President Barrack Obama, and staff

·         Republicans

·         Libertarians

·         Leon

·         Hollywood

·         The 4^th estate again

·         My wife

·         Me

·         You

·         Anybody I missed

Poll question [everybody raise that hand].

Before I ever heard of a guy named Snowden… I knew the Feds monitored phone calls, e-mails and all forms of electronic communications... Well except for Morse Code as the NSA lost the key pad.

Ok let’s see those hands… 1, 2,3………4,472,388 [hmm not as many hands on the left coast as one would think, perhaps a translator was needed and more Doritos]

For those of you who doubt my poll numbers, let me state my case.

·         Tom Clancy- ever read one of his books, how about W.E.B. Griffin or Vince Flynn… they have been writing about it for years. They find out all sorts of information by getting information from the NSA, often this leads to the killing of the bad guys.

·         Movies have featured NSA and Federal information gathering for quite some time- Conspiracy Theory, Enemy of the State, Eagle Eye, the list goes on and on. My favorites are Mercury Rising  and Red. A whole lot of movies cover the subject and the world doesn’t seem to get to upset while enjoying the films.

·         TV- Ever notice that many detective based series rely on the ability of cameras to track everybody’s movement? That they often call up some geek that works in some Government office to reposition a satellite to take pictures, or to playback a phone call from Tuesday at 12:15 outside of a bar in Georgetown? Watch a season of NCIS?

Okay that is the fun stuff, let me give you a couple of other examples.

·         Carnivore was a FBI plan to monitor-   Terrorism, Child pornography/exploitation, Espionage, Information warfare, Fraud.  1997 was the start-up date and on the surface [like all aspects of the Nanny State] the plan sounded like something that could be used for goodness and not badness.

·         NarusInsight  and the company NARUS should give everyone a little more history. Be sure and check out EFF.

·         Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act
 

Back to my point- The Emperor Has no Clothes, but he has one heck of a history of reading our mail and listening to us.

Snowden?

Obama, The Russians, The Chinese, The European Union and the rest of the world just want him to get past his 15 minutes of fame before the 'public' opens their eyes and collectively yells "But he hasn't got anything on!" 
Then we can move onto more important issues like buying cell phones that can record every movement we make and take pictures of our neighbors every action… who needs the NSA?

"Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason."
Samuel Adams 

I know…. Blah, Blah, Blah!

[some editing required.. goes without saying]